• Pictures to think about #1

    I’ve been away from St Mary’s for the last week or so travelling, so no time to write much. However, I did take a lot of photographs and thought I would post one or two things here which made me think. As usual, comments welcome. image

4 responses to “This ain’t persecution”

  1. Beth Routledge Avatar

    Yep. And I think that the Primus has got it badly wrong in responding to this one.

  2. Graham Evans Avatar
    Graham Evans

    Allowing political and religious ad would turn us into another US, where political and religious “debate” centres on who can raise, or already has, the most money.

  3. Ross Kennedy Avatar
    Ross Kennedy

    Oh yes, and while we’re at it we had better ban all films from public showing which contain any religious content – eg: ‘Schindlers List’, ‘Brooklyn’, ‘Magdalen Sisters’, ‘Fury’, ‘Amazing Grace’, ‘Doubt’, etc,etc. We should not risk offending anyone should we? Idiocy – whose idiocy?

  4. Kelvin Avatar

    Surely wanting political and religious ads banned from cinemas is about good taste rather than offence.

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